A B.C. Supreme Court judge repeatedly urged jurors at the high-profile perjury trial of Inderjit Singh Reyat to fight their instincts and resist the temptation to go on the Internet to research the case they have been asked to decide.

In brief opening remarks to the jury Tuesday, Mr. Justice Mark McEwan of the B.C. Supreme Court said doing research on the case would be “absolutely against your oath” and create a problem if the court finds out.

The English in their empire conquests to India and Pakistan brought the game of cricket in their armory, best understood as complicated. With the pavilion hosting tea, the sound of the leather ball on the willow bat soon spread across the verdant lands of the subcontinent. The locals embraced a game played by spectacularly white men with unimpeachable manners, in spectacularly white clothes.

Wolters Kluwer NV, Europe’s largest tax and legal publisher, said “explosive” growth in China’s legal profession will drive sales increases of more than 10 percent a year in the country.

China will have about 2 million lawyers by 2020, from 170,000 today, propelling demand for legal services, Chief Executive Officer Nancy McKinstry said in an interview in Beijing yesterday. The number of regulations and compliance work will increase as China’s financial markets come more in line with practices in the U.S. and Europe, she said.

Law of India refers to the system of law which presently operates in India. Much of contemporary Indian law shows substantial European and American influence. During the drafting of the Indian Constitution, laws from Ireland, the United States, Britain, and France were all synthesized to get a refined set of Indian laws, as it currently stands. Indian laws also adhere to the United Nations guidelines on human rights law and the environmental law. Certain international trade laws, such as those on intellectual property, are also enforced in India.

OTTAWA—Police here are continuing to hold a man described by a federal prosecutor as a fourth suspect in a widening Canadian terrorism probe.

The man, who was arrested Friday, hasn't been charged with terrorism-related offenses. Instead, he appeared in court Saturday on domestic-violence charges, was released on bail, then immediately rearrested and detained on a separate charge of uttering threats, according to his lawyer. He is expected to appear in court again Sunday morning.

Copyright registration in India provides the creator of wide range of materials like art, literature, music, films and broadcasts, sound recordings, official creations and any other services or material the economic right to let them control the use of their materials in several ways by issuing or making copies to the public, broadcasting or using on-line and performing in public. Additionally copyright registration India also offers moral right to the creator of specific kinds of materials and also to object to its mutilation or its distortion.

The Obama administration as well as industry remain tight-lipped

Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Lloyd’s of London underwriters are attempting to convince a U.S. judge that financier R. Allen Stanford conspired to steal money so they can avoid paying attorneys to defend him on criminal fraud charges.

U.S. District Judge Nancy Atlas yesterday began hearing evidence in Houston federal court in a three-day civil trial conducted without a jury in Stanford’s lawsuit against the London-based insurers.

When I was a practising solicitor I was forever hearing the expression “Perfect Is The Enemy of Good” from one of the solicitors in the practice I worked for. It was not until I started my own legal marketing consultancy that I really started to understand the significance of this statement.
Globalization has brought tremendous changes in the global business arena and the BPOs and later LPOs are the direct offshoot of it. LPOs have come into being in India and elsewhere in the world primarily to cater to the clients of US and other developed nations.

Seventy-five aspiring lawyers from across the country locked horns over the most recent amendments to the Information Technology Act, 2000 in regard to regulation of content on the internet, and evolving the position of the Constitution on the fundamental right of freedom of speech and expression.